Without A High Pain Threshold,

When We Got Organized As A Country And We Wrote A Fairly Radical Constitution With A Radical Bill Of Rights, Giving A Radical Amount Of Individual Freedom To Americans, It Was Assumed That The Americans Who Had That Freedom Would Use It Responsibly.

The More Children See Of Violence, The More Numb They Are To The Deadly Consequences Of Violence. Now, Video Games Like 'mortal Kombat,' 'killer Instinct,' And 'doom,' The Very Game Played Obsessively By The Two Young Men Who Ended So Many Lives In Littleton, Make Our Children More Active Participants In Simulated Violence.

We Should, All Of Us, Be Filled With Gratitude And Humility For Our Present Progress And Prosperity. We Should Be Filled With Awe And Joy At What Lies Over The Horizon. And We Should Be Filled With Absolute Determination To Make The Most Of It.

In Science, If The Last 50 Years Were The Age Of Physics, The Next 50 Years Will Be The Age Of Biology.

The Reagan-bush Years Have Exalted Private Gain Over Public Obligation, Special Interests Over The Common Good, Wealth And Fame Over Work And Family. The 1980s Ushered In A Gilded Age Of Greed And Selfishness, Of Irresponsibility And Excess, And Of Neglect.